"A rose/skunk by any other name would smell as sweet/foul", Wm Shakespeare expanded.
George Rebane
Watching the recent California gubernatorial candidates’ debate, it again became clear that the labels we both carefully, and sometimes carelessly, attach to important issues determine the direction and nature of the subsequent debate on and the final resolution of an issue. For those who pay attention to public affairs, this was most apparent when the topic of ‘immigration’ came up.
The clear line of division between the Right and Left involves the existential factors –
- The Left’s overarching public policies are ALL directed toward demonstrably achieving the world envisioned in the UN’s Agenda21 objectives.
- The Left cannot achieve this as long as the US remains a sovereign nation-state and a (the?) world hegemon that recognizes and still celebrates its origin as a western civilization.
- A cohesive national culture and secure borders are anathema to the A21 future. A fragmented and mutually wary (suspicious?) cultural tapestry is the required starting point to any “fundamental transformation of America”.
- Continually promoting the victimization narrative (through public education and the media) about America’s blacks and Hispanics forms the attained beach head for maintaining and expanding divisions of the aggrieved in our land.
- Most productive and conducive to achieving A21 goals is the simmering sentiment in Hispanic communities that embraces Reconquista (q.v.) – the reacquisition of lands lost by Mexico through the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and their reformation under a new sovereign Hispanic government.
- Porous borders that invite the ingress of Hispanic illegal aliens is the ongoing near-term objective – ‘I don’t believe in borders.’, ‘I don’t believe in walls, I believe in bridges.’, … is today’s cry of Democrat politicians and activists.
- Border porosity is most strongly promoted in the Hispanic communities where purposely aggrieved people naturally practice tribalism, and invite/condone the growth of their cohorts with people who are ethnically and culturally similar. Reconquista’s oft-stated guiding principle is its ‘peaceful achievement’ through overwhelming numbers at the ballot box and in government bureaucracies – ‘We will outbreed you!’
- Porous borders are abetted under the imprimatur that the illegal entrants are today’s continuation of America’s historical open-door policies of legal immigration. Hence, it’s of paramount importance to rename the illegal aliens among us as the innocent cohort of ‘undocumented immigrants’, which has finally morphed into simply ‘immigrants’.
- To America’s growing population of the marginally educated, the Left’s use of ‘immigrants’ is purposely designed to confound the historically beneficial ingress of legal immigrants and the not-so-beneficial ingress of illegal entrants which subsequently meld into the unassimilated population of illegal aliens already established in the US.
- The Left’s public position is that how you got into the country doesn’t matter, especially if your native country was authoritarian, poor, and without human rights and economic prospects for its citizens (aka a “shithole country”).
- The Left fosters the illusion that our illegal aliens are equivalent to our legal immigrants in how they draw on public services, participate in our justice system, and contribute to our economy. To them immigration is NOT a two-party process that involves a mutual and formal agreement between the immigrant petitioning entry and the government welcoming such entry. To them immigration is just whatever means are available to aliens to enter our country. Illegal aliens and legal immigrants are all just ‘immigrants’ and so represented to the rest of Americans. They all deserve equally to become franchised citizens, and until then they should have all the rights of franchised citizens, thereby making the latter distinction existentially moot.
One can make the case for the importance of correct/accurate labels that cover other issues such as ‘climate change’ nee ‘global warming’, which functionally the Left argues and treats as preventable manmade global warming. One can make a long list of such propagandized mislabeling of issues, proposed legislation, and laws on the books that is the stock in trade of those dedicated to deception.
[update] We live "in the rotting carcass of an once great state" – the case for this is summarized succinctly in this YouTube video brought to our attention by a regular reader and commenter.
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